Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: A late Christmas Gift

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Posted by Peter Berrett (Member # 672) on 12-29-2010, 05:27 AM:

Hi all and Merry Christmas

Here is a late Christmas gift for you all. I presume that many of you spent a large portion of your misspent youth playing Galaga at your local Fish and Chippery. There is a program called MAME which will emulate the game but for simplicity's sake here is a link to an online web embedded version of Galaga which is heaps fun.

http://nintendo8.com/game/118/galaga/

cheers Peter

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 12-29-2010, 05:36 PM:

Thanks, that's one of my favorite old games. I'm still wishing for a good version of Defender -- it's possible to find perfect video, but the controls just can't be duplicated on a keyboard!

Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 12-29-2010, 06:45 PM:

Cool! Thanks Pete.

Now, if you can find 'Battlezone', then I be forever in your debt.

Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 12-29-2010, 09:07 PM:

Now what was the game you had to pilot a moon lander down thru asteroids?
Black & white I think.

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 12-30-2010, 12:22 AM:

You're probably thinking of Lunar Lander.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 12-30-2010, 01:15 AM:

Lunar Lander -- we used to have competitions to see who could crash the spaceship into the ground at the highest rate of speed.

Posted by Peter Berrett (Member # 672) on 12-30-2010, 04:20 AM:

quote: Ian Parfrey
Cool! Thanks Pete.

Now, if you can find 'Battlezone', then I be forever in your debt.

According to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_%281980_video_game%29

"Battlezone was also re-released to Microsoft's Game Room download service for the Xbox 360 and Windows-based PCs in May 2010."

Apparently you can go to Microsoft's game room and down the game for free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Room

http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-us/games/pages/gameroom.aspx

Alternatively I think you can get Battlezone to run under the MAME emulator. (Google it)

Also I read that Tank Hunter is very similar. You can play this online

http://www.javagameplay.com/tankHunter.html

I ma sorry however. I just played the game and it is way too violent for you Film-Techers! [Smile]

cheers Peter